Penkridge railway station

Penkridge railway station is a station serving the town of Penkridge in Staffordshire, England.

Penkridge
Penkridge station, 10 February 2007
Location
Place	Penkridge
Local authority	South Staffordshire
Grid reference	SJ920139
Operations
Station code	PKG
Managed by	London Northwestern Railway
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	0.202 million
2015/16	0.223 million
2016/17	0.237 million
2017/18	0.257 million
2018/19	0.276 million
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Penkridge from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

It is situated on the Birmingham branch of the West Coast Main Line. To the north, the line continues towards Stafford. To the south, the line continues towards the city of Wolverhampton. The station is operated by London Northwestern Railway, who run all of its train services.

History

The original station was built by the Grand Junction Railway and opened in 1837.[1]^:31 Baron Hatherton allowed to trains run across his land on the condition that two trains a day stopped at Penkridge. When closure of the station was proposed in 1962, the incumbent Baron Hatherton threatened to withdraw the right to cross his land if the station was closed. Nearby to Penkridge is a former mineral branch line to the nearby village of Huntington. It served a Colliery until the 1980s. The trackbed is a footpath from the Wolverhampton Road to Micklewood Lane near Huntington. The rest of the trackbed is now both agricultural and built on at Huntingdon end by a school.

Services

Since the timetable change on 19 May 2019, Penkridge station is served by two trains per hour northbound to Crewe and Liverpool Lime Street and two southbound trains per hour to Birmingham New Street and London Euston on weekdays. On Sundays there is an hourly service in each direction, however southbound trains mostly terminate at Birmingham New Street. A number of additional services call during the morning and evening weekday peak periods. One weekday morning southbound service goes to Rugeley Trent Valley via Birmingham, Walsall and Cannock.

The station previously had a slightly unusual weekday service pattern, in that there were two trains per hour southbound to Birmingham New Street but only one per hour northbound to Crewe and Liverpool Lime Street.[2] [3]

Notes

1. Drake, James (1838). Drake’s Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway (1838). Moorland Reprints. ISBN 0903485257.
2. GB eNRT May 2019 Edition, Tables 65 & 68
3. GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 68

References

Lewis, Roy (1996). Staffordshire Railway Stations on old picture postcards (reprinted 2002). Nottingham: Reflections of a Bygone Age. ISBN 1-900138-05-0

External links

• Train times and station information for Penkridge railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Wolverhampton		London Northwestern Railway Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford Line		Stafford
	Disused railways
Gailey		London and North Western Railway former Grand Junction Railway		Stafford